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ED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Serial No^rrT 10/764,345

Filing Date 1/23/2004

Confirmation No 5777

Inventorship Tie Liu

Applicant Microsoft Corporation

Group Art Unit

Examiner

Attorney's Docket No MS 1 - 1 8 1 1US

Title: Watermarking via Quantization of Rational Statistics of Regions

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Brunk, Hugh L; et

us_ 5802518

9/1/1998

Karaev et al.

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2/1 8/2003

Moskowitz et al.

us " 6532541

3/11/2003

Chang, et al.

us " 6625295

9/23/2003

Wolfgang, et al.

us " 6647128

11/11/2003

Rhoads

us - 6674861

1/6/2004

Xu, etal.

us " 6701014

3/2/2004

Syeda-Mahmood

us " 6768809

7/27/2004

Rhoads, etal.

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Lin et al., "A Robust Image Authentication Method Distinguishing JPEG Compression from Malicious
Manipulation", IEEE Transactions, Feb. 2001, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 153-168

Schneider et al., "A Robust Content Based Digital Signature for Image Authentication", Proceedings,
International Conference, Sept. 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 227-230

M. D. Swanson, B. Zhu and B. Chau, "Object based transparent video watermarking," Proceedings of IEEE
Signal Processing Society 1997 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, June 23 - 25, 1997, Princeton,
New Jersey, USA.

M. K. Mihgak and R. Venkatesan, "A tool for robust audio information hiding: A perceptual audio hashing

algorithm," submitted to Workshop on Information Hiding, Pittsburgh, PA,

2001.

T. Kalker and J. Haitsma, "Efficient detection of a spatial spread-spectrum watermark in MPEG video streams,"
Proc. IEEE ICIP, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000.

F. A. P. Petitcolas and R. J. Anderson, "Evaluation of copyright marking systems," Proceedings of IEEE
Multimedia Systems'99, vol. 1, pp. 574-579, 7-11 June 1999, Florence, Italy.

I. J. Cox, J. Killian, T. Leighton, and T. Shamoon, "A secure robust watermark for multimedia," Information
Hiding Workshop, University of Cambridge, pp, 185-206, 1996.

J. Dittman, M. Stabenau and R. Steinmetz, "Robust MPEG video watermarking technologies," Proceedings of
ACM Multimedia '98, The 6th ACM International Multimedia Conference, Bristol, England, pp. 71-80.

B Chen and G. W. Womell, "Digital watermarking and information embedding using dither modulation," Proc.
IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Redondo Beach, CA, pp. 273-278. Dec. 1998.

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